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At the Library for December 6th, 2016- ‘Aloha Wanderwell’ tells the amazing true story of the first woman in history to drive around the world. This feat is all the more amazing when one considers that Aloha was only 16 at the time (she quite high school to answer an ad for a travelling secretary), she didn’t know how…

At the Library for November 29th, 2016- New in biographies this week is Amber Smith’s ‘Danger Close’—Smith was the first woman elite combat helicopter pilot to be stationed in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and she explains in detail just how she was able to thrive in a male-dominated unit. In ‘To Burp or Not to Burp’ Dafydd Williams…

At the Library for November 22, 2016- Anthony Sadler recounts how he and his two best friends decided to tackle an Isis terrorist who boarded a train in Brussels intent on killing all 500 passengers in ‘The 15:17 to Paris.’ Helaine Becker takes a scientific approach to seeing if Frankenstein, Dracula, and even Bigfoot could actually survive in…